Chapter 90. To provide for the eradication or control of the European corn borer
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CHAP. 90.— An Act To provide for the eradication or control of the European corn borer.February 9, 1927.[[H. R. 15649](/us/bill/69/hr/15649).][[Public, No, 594](/us/pl/69/594).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,European corn borer.Amount authorized for eradication, etc., of.*Post*, p. 1177. That to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to apply such methods of eradication or control of the European corn borer as in his judgment may be necessary, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and all other necessary expenses, the sum of $10,000,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended in cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations, or individuals as the Secretary may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes: *Provided*, That in the discretion*Provisos*.Cooperative legislation and appropriations by States required. of the Secretary of Agriculture no expenditures shall be made hereunder until the States wherein the European corn borer exists shall have provided necessary regulatory legislation and until a sum or sums adequate to State cooperation shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by States, county, or local authorities or individuals or organizations: *Provided further*, ThatAllowance for incidental farm clean-up limited. expenditures from this appropriation for any necessary farm clean-up incidental to such eradication or control shall include only such as are, in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, additional to those normal and usual in farm operations: *Provided further*,No pay for corn, etc., destroyed.
That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of corn or other farm crops or other property injured or destroyed: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of Agriculture may receive, and shall cover into the Treasury asMoneys received from States to b$ covered into the Treasury. miscellaneous receipts, any and all moneys authorized by the law of any State to be paid to the United States out of amounts assessed 1066 against and collected from any owner of premises who refuses or neglects to carry out State-control requirements, when such moneys represent expenditures made on such premises by the United States under the provisions of this Act.
Approved, February 9, 1927.